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Color#c6c1adrgb(198, 193, 173) · orange

#c6c1ad color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #c6c1ad.

Color values

The same color written in every notation you are likely to need. Click any row to copy it.

What HEX means

#c6c1ad packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: c6 red, c1 green, ad blue.

What RGB means

Red 198, green 193, blue 173 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 48° (orange), saturation 18%, lightness 73%. HSL is handy when you want the same hue a little lighter or less saturated.

Why OKLCH

OKLCH is a perceptual space — changing its lightness (81.0%) matches how your eye reads brightness far better than HSL, which is why the palette below is generated in it.

Accessibility & contrast

WCAG requires at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at level AA. Use this to decide whether white or black text belongs on this color.

AaThis text is readable
White text1.81:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text11.63:1
AA AAA AA Large

Closest accessible alternative

Nudged in lightness to reach 4.5:1 while keeping the hue as close as possible.

Aa

For white text

#797462

4.68:1

UI preview

How this color behaves in a real interface, not just as a square.

Badge

A paragraph with a themed link inside it.

Information

An alert accented with this color.

Progress

Tints & shades

A tint mixes the color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. Click any swatch to open it.

Color harmonies

Schemes built by rotating the hue around the color wheel — the starting point for a coherent palette.

Complementary

Opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast.

Analogous

Neighbours on the wheel — calm and cohesive.

Triadic

Three hues 120° apart — vivid but balanced.

Split complementary

Softer than a straight complement.

Tetradic

Four hues — enough for a design system.

Palette generator

A Tailwind-style 50–950 ramp anchored on this color at step 500, generated in OKLCH so the steps feel evenly spaced.

:root {
  --primary-50: #f9f7f2;
  --primary-100: #efede4;
  --primary-200: #dcd9cd;
  --primary-300: #c5c1b2;
  --primary-400: #a6a290;
  --primary-500: #c6c1ad;
  --primary-600: #6c6856;
  --primary-700: #575343;
  --primary-800: #454133;
  --primary-900: #373428;
  --primary-950: #1f1d16;
}

Gradient

A linear blend from this color to its complement, with the CSS ready to paste.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #c6c1ad, #aeb3c7);

Nearest named colors

The closest matches from a corpus of about 31,900 named colours, ranked by ΔE (CIEDE2000) — a measure of how different two colours look. ΔE under 1 is nearly indistinguishable; around 10 is clearly different.

CSS code

Every common way to use this color in a stylesheet or a component.

color: #c6c1ad;
background-color: #c6c1ad;
:root {
  --color-primary: #c6c1ad;
}
color: rgb(198 193 173);
color: oklch(81% 0.0279 95.41);
<div class="bg-[#c6c1ad]">…</div>